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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

FiOptics Baby!

What do we want? A real competitor to Time Warner Cable! When do we want it? Now!

If Cincinnati Bell can roll it its new FiOptics service to most of Greater Cincinnati, Time Warner Cable is in trouble... Besides offering far greater download speeds of up to 30 MBPS, FiOptics also means legitimate non-satellite-based TV competition for Time Warner.

The party (and the monopoly) for Time Warner Cable will soon be over. They will actually have to compete for our business. I can't wait... Competition (not greed) is good.

If FiOptics is smart enough not to adopt Time Warner's moronic practice of unnecessarily copy protecting channels (CCI Byte) when the respective network does not require it, FiOptics will immediately get a swarm of Tivo users who want the full functionality of their boxes back.

Thanks LK! Sounds promising! Keep providing feedback. Let me know the goods and bads. It will probably be a long time before it's available in my area but it's just good to see that there is superfast Internet on the horizon AND that Time Warner will finally have some competition. Later, Dolf

Maybe Roadrunner will get smart and stop the cap on uploads and put an end to Bell forever. If Roadrunner gives me 30/30 I'll stay. Right now I have nothing from Bell and things are great. If you need phone service, just plug in a Magicjack or use your Cell/Smartphone.